Welcome to Portfolio Talk, an entertaining and insightful hour about the health of your investment portfolio. In every episode you’ll meet real life people just like you and find out how they’re saving and investing their money. Host, Ron DeLegge dissects and grades listener portfolios using a simple grading scale of A, B, C, D, and F. Does your portfolio pass or fail? Find out right here and at PortfolioReportCard.com.

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Life in a shrinking economy, a forgotten concept We have forgotten what it’s like to experience a shrinking economy. The economic tailwinds we’ve enjoyed for decades, however, are beginning to turn into headwinds: demographics, consumer behavior and most of all --- the debt mega-cycle. What has worked so well in the investment world for the las ...…

One of the internet’s most-respected retirement researchers and financial planners, Michael Kitces, joins me for an episode of the Financial Independence Podcast! You may remember that my Safe Withdrawal Rate post drew heavily from the incredible research Kitces has done on the topic so it was great to talk to him directly to dive even deeper i ...…

EP090 - Nordstrom.com Ken Worzel and Danny Ryder http://retailgeek.com/podcast An interview with Ken Worzel, President of Nordstrom.com and Danny Ryder, EVP, Online Merchandising & Experience. Nordstrom is the #17 retailer on the IR500 list. They are one of the most storied retailers in North America, founded in 1901. Today they have 354 stores ...…

In this week's episode, we're going through how to increase your borrowing capacity. People struggle to get loans initially, and it's only becoming harder because APRA is tightening lending requirements. This is really just, how much people can take out and we'll go through seven practical tips. This is all simple stuff and whether you're looki ...…

EP086 - Dorel Juvenile Group Bob Land and Jamie Dooley An interview with Bob Land is the VP Consumer Engagement and Jamie Dooley is the Head of E-Commerce at Dorel Juvenile Group. Dorel Juvenile is the world’s leading juvenile product company and has over 11k employees globally. They have a portfolio of 11 brands include Cosco and Safety 1st. I ...…

Everyone grows up with some kind of belief system that is an amalgam of religion, culture, and life circumstances. These beliefs influence how we see the world and how we behave within it. Make no mistake, belief systems have a lot to do with how successful or not successful you are in life. I am the child of Indian American immigrants. My dad, ...…

The CFPB estimates there are 45 million adults in the US today who have little or no credit history. Consequently, these people are terribly underserved by traditional finance. But some companies are making inroads into this market and are doing so profitably. My guest on Episode 101 of the Lend Academy Podcast is Raul Vazquez, the CEO of Oport ...…

When is the ‘right time’ to invest in real estate? Listen to my interview with Jason Hartman and learn why it is always a good time to invest, as long as you understand the different types of real estate markets and choose slow, steady growth over a ‘home run.’

For our 100th episode I thought we would do something a little different. We decided to bring the Lend Academy team (pictured above) together to get their perspective on their favorite episodes in the first 100 podcasts. But this is more than just a fun retrospective. Like everything we do at Lend Academy the goal here is to help people learn a ...…

This note was originally published on Business Insider. Apple is the world’s largest company with a market cap of nearly $770 billion as of this writing. Tesla is one of the world’s largest automakers with a market cap of close to $55 billion, although we think the Tesla story is just getting started. There are many parallels […]…

Brendan Wallace is a Co-Founder of Fifth Wall, the fund that specializes in technology for the built world and real estate tech. Prior to Fifth Wall, Brendan was Co-founder & CEO of Identified, a data & analytics company that raised $33 million of venture capital and was acquired by Workday (WDAY) in 2014. Brendan also co-founded Cabify, the la ...…

As I have said before China is by far the largest marketplace lending market in the world. In fact, it is so large, the loan volume in the rest of the world combined would not even come to 50% of the volume happening in China today. But it is not just about size. China is also the most important country in the world with more innovation happeni ...…

Welcome to episode sixteen of the Building Local Power podcast. For full transcript of the podcast, click here. In this episode, Christopher Mitchell, the director of ILSR’s Community Broadband Networks initiative and Stacy Mitchell, the co-director of ILSR and director of ILSR’s Community-Scaled Economies initiative interview Building Local Po ...…

Simon Shares Our banks are now being downgraded by S&P and Fitch, this is to be expected. Tongaat*, I have been buying and now have full allocation. Still my preferred second tier portfolio pick. Taste selling jewelry and doubling down on international food brands with another rights issue coming. Japan, worth investing in? Upcoming events JSE ...…

Owning your own business can lead to the lifestyle of your dreams, but only if you’re very intentional about it. Only you can decide what that dream looks like, and only you can implement it. That’s exactly what Sean D’Souza has done for himself. Instead of constantly trying to grow ever-higher revenue from his courses and membership program, S ...…

Click the title of the article to read this post on Improve Photography, which includes all media files mentioned. Jeff Harmon provides his view on the current state of major software updates for photographers including Windows 10 Creator's Update, Apple macOS Sierra (10.12.4), Lightroom CC 2015.9/6.9, Luminar, and On1 Photo 2017. Advertisers f ...…

Chris Badgett of LifterLMS talks about the current state of online education and the engagement opportunity with Mike Weiss in this episode of LMScast. Mike is from the Client Engagement Academy, and he is a professional in online course and platform creation. They discuss the problems with eLearning in the online course landscape and how to so ...…

Lara Hogan, Engineering Director at Etsy Lara Hogan is an Engineering Director at Etsy and a published author on web performance & public speaking. Selected Topics: Public speaking, book writing, thought leadership, ignoring trolls & developing yourself as a manager About Lara: Lara Callender Hogan is an Engineering Director at Etsy and the aut ...…

The very first peer to peer lending platform to launch in the world was Zopa in the UK back in 2005. Prosper and Lending Club would come soon after but Zopa was the trailblazer. Today, they are continuing their trailblazing ways by becoming the first platform to start a bank. On my recent visit to London I went to the Zopa offices to sit down w ...…

John Brown, owner of Business Enterprise Institute (BEI), fell into the world of exit planning before there was even a term for the process. As an estate attorney in the 80’s, John was approached by clients wanting to exit their business without a clue how to do it. BEI was born from John’s realization of this unmet need in the marketplace. Now ...…

Most people think of rental properties when you hear about passive income from real estate. However, there are many ways to create passive income investing in properties. You can even create passive income without ever buying a property (writing a book, or creating a website). Mark Podolsky (also know as the Land Geek) is the guest on today's e ...…

Grameen America is a different kind of lender. The concept was started by Muhammad Yunus back in the 1970’s in Bangladesh and it has been so successful that he won a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts. Grameen America works on the same principles as the original Grameen: providing small loans to female entrepreneurs to help them start or expand ...…

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ANDY CROWE ● BILL YATES ● NICK WALKER ● KEITH WILLIAMS NICK WALKER: Welcome to Manage This, the podcast by project managers for project managers. This is our informal discourse about what matters most to you as a professional project manager, or if you’re working toward that position. We want to keep you motivated, keep you improving, and encou ...…

Listing REO and HUD properties was a huge boost to my career as a real estate agent. It was also a huge boost to Rochelle Jones’ career who is my guest on this week’s episode of The InvestFourMore Real Estate Podcast. Not only has Rochelle become very successful selling REO and HUD properties, she has also built a fantastic business working wit ...…

Taylor is the Chief Executive Artist of Little Hippie. A fun collection of clothing for the whole entire family. She's an entrepreneur, an artist, an adventurer, and a super creative woman. She's also an illustrator whose work has been licensed by the Grateful Dead since 2004. We sit down and talk about being what it's like to run a creative bu ...…

Joe Mueller started out as a real estate investor when he was just 18. He bought his first house at 19, and became an agent to make investing easier. As an agent he started listing REO and HUD homes like I do, and then started his own brokerage. Joe now has an office that sells hundreds of homes a year, he has a wholesale business, he owns clos ...…

Well, it finally happened. Nintendo went full free-to-play with the release of Fire Emblem Heroes, adding time limits and “gacha” mechanics to their game. But is it as bad as it sounds? In this episode of the Random Nintendo Podcast, we share our impressions of Fire Emblem Heroes and the similarly-structured, surprise mobile release Pokemon Due ...…